Communications
Caulfield and Clayton
Minor sequence:
A minor sequence consists of COM1010 and COM1020 plus another twelve points at second-year level. Students can choose from the listed core units or from the elective units chosen from the list below.
Major Sequence:
Students complete a standard major, including COM1010 and COM1020, with the remainder of units chosen from units listed below, including the two core units and four electives.
Units that can be counted towards Communications - Caulfield and Clayton:
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First-year level
- COM1010 Media Studies
- COM1020 Introduction to Communication Studies
Second/Third-year level
- COM2050 / COM3050 New Media: Communications in the Electronic Age
- COM3020 Second Media Age
Plus four of the following:
- COM2010 / COM3010 Computer and video games: technology, culture, industry
- COM2040 / COM3040 Travel writing and new technologies (Not offered from 2006 onwards)
- COM2055 / COM3055 Communication and creativity
- COM2065 / COM3065 Communicating science (Clayton only)
- COM2080 / COM3080 Youth media
- COM2100 / COM3100 The public sphere
- COM2120 / COM3120 True north
- COM2130 / COM3130 Print cultures: books as media
- COM2417 / COM3417 Virtual cultures
- COM3060 The practicing consultant (Not offered from 2006 onwards)
- COM3300 Research readings
- COM3700 Comedy (Clayton only)
OR three of the above plus one of the following:
- CLS2000 / CLS3000 Introduction to critical theory
- CLS2130 / CLS3130 Introduction to cultural theory
- CRI2008 / CRI3008 Crime and the media (previously CRJ2008 / CRJ3008)
- FTV2010 / FTV3010 Television genres
- GND2030 / GND3030 Gender, media and consumption
- JRN2909 / JRN3099 Media law
- PLT2170 / PLT3170 Politics and the media in Australia
- SCY2021 / SCY3021 Communications, media and societies